Photo Manipulation Thread

Just made this, thinking of having a t-shirt printed with something close to this.

 

Speed_Gibson

.... when 'like' isn't enough:

 

Can photo manipulation be done when taking the photo instead of in post?
I bought a circular polarizer before going to Cuba a couple of weeks ago.

This is my first shot at 200mm with just the UV filter on the lens:



A minute or so later after I swapped the UV filter for the polarizer. I pulled back to 110mm because the sky and water suddenly popped!

 

Polarizes are worth their weight in gold if you take pictures with sky or anything reflective in them. Unless you have a high quality UV filter and can explain why you're using it in a single sentence (unless you're shooting in a sandstorm or your lens needs it for a weather seal it isn't protecting anything,) don't use it.

 

edit: I see a few small rough spots here and already fixed them for the Flikr version.

 

Just made this one. Obvious/already done but still fun.

Yugo with a donut

 

I just got GIMP last week so that I could enhance my SW:TOR screenshots. I really like it. It has all the tools I need to make my screenshots look awesome.

Not really photo manipulation like the other posts in this thread, but here's an example:

 

Gimp 2.8 is a nice release that vastly improves the program. Good feel that improves on what the later 2.7.x builds were showing even.
Yes you could say things like "You are getting excited about layer groups introduced now?", etc, and they are playing catchup in some respects.
But I also would be very hesitant to directly compare an free opensource program with a handful of developers to a commercial program with a significant purchase cost (decent subscription/lease cost though if you ask me), whole slew of developers working full time on it, and what is undoubtedly a large budget dedicated to the active development.

 

Just uploaded this for a profile picture on Facebook, not done with the project yet but this was half of my goal and easy enough to use for that purpose.

 

Finally finished what I was picturing. This incorporates what I had in mind for the full Romney picture before I went the quick and easy route and adds to it some.
The original inspiration for this was the Tommy Lee Jones avatar I made for Fremen, I wanted to see that on a bigger scale.

 

Another zombie picture, this time with Sam Walton as the subject:
That tattoo showing through his torn clothes is the relatively new Walmart Sparkle logo.

 

A picture with Newt back when he was still running for the GOP Presidential spot. Just a head swap in this case, nothing else was changed in this decidedly odd shot.

 

Basic colourising job

The source image was from here

 

I recently made this as part of a larger Photoshop job...if only this had been done in the actual film.

 

Just put this together finally, but it has been in my head for ages now.

 

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My latest one. Way too obvious but it was simple enough in any event.